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Moru​š​a biela

by Jana Kirschner

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Blue Neon Zvuk vinylu je povedzme ok, až do momentu, kedy sa nahrávky nedostanú do forte, vtedy je vinyl skreslený až-až (blbý mastering), ku koncu strán už sú skladby takmer nepočúvateľné (príliš veľa HF limiteru na premodulovaný zvuk nahrávky). Pevne verím, že Moruša čierna už bude na vinyle s lepším masterom a nie s tým, čo je na CD. Prosím, nech je ten ďalší vinyl počúvateľnejší. Favorite track: Sama.
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1.
WHEN EVENING COMES (A FAREWELL) / Až príde večer The evening and the wind fall upon fields Caressing blossoming white apple trees An echoed voice far away Takes me back to the old days Down valleys low rushes a nimble stream I open doors to all memories clean The day is cradled to sleep Life like a beautiful dream Passes before my eyes The evening and the wind fall upon fields intoning songs in rustling hazel trees Proud daisies in meadows fine bow their heads for the last time Secret signs flying way up in the sky Filling with water streams that had run dry Stars embraced by mountains high sing like a heavenly choir Calling us to come home When evening falls that wandering friend of mine My heavy head in green grass will be lying Face changed with creases and lines Youth like a pair of wing flies Whatever´s happened I regret no thing Like thirsty soil I let it all soak in When cold the body they say In feathers finds heavens way The beautiful dream is gone
2.
Promenáda 04:12
PROMENADE / Promenáda The moon is shining in full bloom Meadows perfumed up with thyme Drunk on sweet and magic fumes A gracious doe lies down Shining with a bright light, A diamond rises Through the mist Through the ferns I wade Just like an arrow I fly, orbiting And in an endless sea of glowing whales And creatures strange and weird I glide with seaweed In the stream Seems like I am not alone There´s beasts, people Giraffes and antelope There´s birds in trees The moon is shining in full bloom Meadows perfumed up with thyme A diamond rises Overhead Wild vine climbing, Bodies like waves surge, The ground sings, the ground sings Travellers, still wide awake, Streaming outside in packs Through windows, chimneys too, Flock together, Joining, linking, connecting Taking in the vibrating Spheres The moon is shining in full bloom, Lures the land
3.
Divná 03:10
STRANGE / Divná Out of the dark Sprang a small spark Magic dizziness now fills my head A coquette Like a fairy, Got me very Drunk on longing and on attraction Temptation For ages I have looked for you For ages - for a love that feels like yours For ages I´ve waited for you For ages - dreamt of winds that finally blew Upon shores Out of the dark Sprang a small spark Was it dozing in the snows of spring, Flickering? All those feelings Sly snakes reeling Suddenly the magic up and flew... Saw through you
4.
Sama 05:44
ALONE / Sama All alone - me only Like a lone dove lonely Black as blackest coal Like a tar smudged soul Life is like a song An Autumn sad and long Oh those notes so blue Sound like clacking shoes The moon up sways and swings My heart - a snapping string Pale stars in my eyes Soon the sun will rise Oh my blackest soul Empty like a bowl Silence stabs my ears Faithful to my tears All alone - me only Like a lone dove lonely Black as blackest coal Like a tar smudged soul All alone and brittle Like a tiny, little Boat in waters swirling My desire´s burning Life with no joy, no sense With no white innocence No pain that goes above The pain of treacherous love The moon up sways and swings My heart - a snapping string Pale stars in my eyes Soon the sun will rise Oh my blackest soul Empty like a bowl Silence stabs my ears Faithful to my tears All alone - me only like a lone dove lonely Flying like a raven Through the world, forsaken A storm in me is howling Tunes furious and growly The devil´s laughter foul Wolves in me on the prowl The moon up sways and swings In my heart snapped a string Feathers fly around me My soul trying to break free Bells tolling far away Mighty trees shake and sway Still so young, my poor soul Too foolish and too bold All alone - me only I've got a soul that's lonely A lone crabapple tree No other soul to love me Unwanted, unsightly Neither mean, nor lovely A seed no-one would sow I'm just a poor lone doe Like a river, life meanders Twists, turns and wanders Feels as holding Black slippery eels And the human destiny It spins you as a yarn But if you´re scared The magic will just stay uncovered Happiness that smells as sweet As lilacs, fades away, Hey, just remember that! It´s nothing but an illusion Like chimney smoke I'll rise, Amidst mandolins´ cries Towards the sun I'll fly
5.
Palisády 04:43
PALISÁDY Floating like smoke, so light Covered in laces white Soft like muslin The voice of love Pictures hanging on walls White dust keeps whirling in a waltz like on a ball The notes of a tune from lips fall Shadows of life flicker through window panes Like candles The wind in gardens growing faint, Pigeons sitting on the heads of saints Arguing, fighting for the best view Lovers in stone; They say, In public, that's no way to behave, that's a fact Hope there´s no shame in artefacts In brilliant rays of the sun They are healing their cold The twilight opens Up a cold veil with a touch of night Old fame once more burning bright Slowly the courtyard fills with starlight I often ask myself: where to? with who? Keep questioning ghosts of a time gone for the clues Deep in my heart plays that tune The memory fades away just like the song The world once loved
6.
BOTH FROM MARTIN /Z jedného Martina Outside it´s summer and the city´s filled with heat Like a fat maybug hanging over every street Down by the Danube, people in the river´s stream And rats like me can only hope, secretly dream That when time is right I will throw away my clothes Floating on waves, it´s cool to feel the water flow Counting the windows on the house across the street Dropped anchors in Funus, a boat on a lake, that´s it Just blowing bubbles, floating, dreaming in the sun And in my charts of feelings there is only one In my sweet visions You´re never away I still remember Those holidays The tender and soft veil Of those August days It´s been a long time It´s been a while Outside it´s summer and the hotness just won´t quit You were my first and undisputed smashing hit Bratislava surely is not a desert town But the Sun keeps burning and the heat just beats me down And it´s a shame it never worked for us We were so close but then we had to take a pass Me, I let myself slide and you, you just went bad And it´s a shame but you know that love is mad And it´s a shame it never did work out We were so close, it even made our parents proud You said that you wanted it - but I let it die We were so close, both from Martin, you and I
7.
Iba raz 04:26
JUST ONCE / IBA RAZ A noisy street has just turned calm You´re waiting with an open palm I´m enchanted, mesmerized, tongue-tied This doesn't feel like me at all Silence drives me up the wall There´s no trick that I haven't seen tried He smells of dawns Fields freshly rained on I hope that he´ll know That my heart answered long ago Oh, to love, love just once, that´s fine Even if it will break your spine It´s a time of desire It´s a moment that forever will Fuel your fire The feelings that now carry me Are swooshing like a deep black sea There´s an ocean sparkling and remote The world in soft foam is retreating Dreaming dreams so sweet of cheating Faithful like a captain to his boat He smells of dawns Fields freshly rained on I hope that he´ll know That my heart answered long ago Oh, to love, love just once, that´s fine Even if it will break your spine It´s a time of desire It´s a moment that forever will Fuel your fire Loving once, it´s enough, you see For no reason other than glee It´s a time of desire It´s a moment that forever will Fuel your fire
8.
A MOUNTAIN AND A BIRD (A BALLAD) / O hore a vtáčkovi Two hearts on a spinning wheel Twined with lust She wears darkness head to heel Swirling dust The mountain whispers words Luring the bird Touching and caressing hands The first time Longing overcomes good sense Snakes and slime The mountain whispers words Luring the bird Two small wings, when new day breaks, Frozen white Glowing on the shores of lakes, A strange light Woods whisper words Luring the bird
9.
Vidina 08:18
VISION / VIDINA Mighty love pours through a crack in the heart Through a fort unassailable A rock unbreakable Twisting through a barrier of hands Like rust, unworthy weed Every bone and cell in the body Teeth, nails, beautiful feathers It grinds to dust And subjugates the man Rivers ripple Mountains burn and fish burn Crayfish, clouds and birds in the grain field All swallowed by fiery heat The roar of rocks Burying in echoes The song of crags Sinful love, a colourful bird, a notion A foolish vision shackling a charming emotion Through a fort unassailable A rock unbreakable, through a barrier of hands Running away The dew is falling onto grass Whispering into a dream About the spring The mulberry sings Of rainbows and breeze Of the human journey Of the beauty of the eyes, of touches that meet, Of faith and magic Of awe and desire Of a strange destiny White mulberry Light and shadows Heaven and Earth A hot breath, a lover´s sob With a tender kiss Unlocking the gate And desire screams Blossoming like a young bud in the spring Awakening in a woman´s lap Light and darkness, A thousand smells, touches and tastes, The mountains roar through valleys Waters thicken with sugar The fruits of desire ripen Fragrant mead overflows And black wine oozes from veins A maid dressed in a robe From silk yarn a mysterious garment Is spun on a spinning wheel at night Clutching the hand of her lover Drunk on magic´s power A perfect kiss turns into A poisonous, bitter, thick juice She twists and squirms The throat tightens Fairies now carry her Towards the woods And tarns glow with grief And in a grove on the top of the hill Bending in the wind Embraced in the branches The young maid Petals snowing A voice soft and tender flying And on a quiet hillside Underneath the mountains A fire-fly whispers to a fir That knows the tender flowers in the field Animals and stones Rain, fire, the river source Night that turns into day That in the depth of worlds On the bottom of seas Burns forever and ever Love divine Growing in the heart A bell in the tower, a song in the clock A breath on the lips and leaves on trees I raise my hands I cut and fell A beautiful tree is falling And with it, rain

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Moruša Biela is the first part of a project which is a two album set: the first is Moruša Biela and second is Moruša Cierna. Across the two albums the music and lyrics cover much ground. Musically the first album is more acoustic. The line up of cello, violin/viola/zlopcoke, accordion, clarinet/bass clarinet, tuned percussion, cimbalom, piano, plus rhythm section and male vocal quartet lends itself to folk and classical music of the area of central europe, which the album is heavily influenced by though realised through through the prism of contemporary composition and "pop" song-craft.

The 2nd album brings in more electronics, improvisations, experimentation, and various modern pop production techniques without digressing too far from the overall narrative (it will be released in 2014).

Lyrically it is very varied, but a theme is returned to again and again.... that of the illusion of nostalgia, the blinkered eye of the past, the uncertainty of the future, the growth of the urban uber-connected world at the expense of the somewhat introverted insular rural communities, the diluting of small traditional communities by the march of technology and need for "growth" or status... These are usually touched upon through metaphor, not directly, but the undercurrent is there. There is no sense, however, that the future is "bad" and the past is "good" - it is. in fact, questioning that popular and clearly misguided premise.

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released November 11, 2013

Jana Kirschner, Eddie Stevens

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Jana Kirschner Bratislava, Slovakia

Jana Kirschner released her debut album in ´97 with a huge commercial success. In ´05, moved to London to work on her album Shine with excellent British producer Ross Cullum. In ´09 she invited British musician and producer Eddie Stevens (Moloko) to work with her and the result of this co-operation is heard on Krajina Rovina and later on Moruša biela albums. ... more

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